TRADE AND COMMERCE.
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and manufactures into India in each of the ten years ended December 31, 1860 to 1869 :—
Years
Exports from India to Great Britain and Ireland
Imports of
British Home Produce
into India
£
£
1860
15,106.597
16,965,292
1861
21,968,752
16,411,756
1862
34,133,551
14,617,673
1863
48,434,640
20.002,241
1864
52,295,599
19,951,637
1865
37,395,454
18,269,413
1866
36.901,997
20,009,490
1867
25,487,786
21,805,127
1868
30,071,871
21,251,773
1869
33,245,442
17,559,865
The chief articles of export from India to the United Kingdom, in the year 1869, were raw cotton, of' the value of 18,340,869/.; indigo, of the value of 2,309,882/. ; jute, of the value of 2,124,398/. ; and rice, of the value of 2,078,265/. The chief articles of British produce imported into India in 1869 were cotton goods, of the value of 10,850,509/. ; iron, of the value of 1,732,357/. ; and copper, of the value of 1,245,491/.
Next to the United Kingdom, the countries having the largest trade with India are China and Japan, France, and Australasia. The value of the imports into India from all countries — including treasure and, in the case of the United Kingdom, foreign and colonial pro- duce — was as follows in each of the years ending the last of March 1867 and 1868 :—
Countries
1867
1868
£
£
United Kingdom .....
22,763,591
24,750,966
Aden .....
200,574
134,427
Africa, coast of
183,471
202,424
America, North and South
79,426
111,867
Arabian and Persian Gulfs
i
1,350,484
1,305,538
Australasia ....
1,022,786
644,245
Batavia, Java, and Sumatra
17.712
65,675
Ceylon
1,420,998
1,952,423
China .....
8,569,291
8,280,852
France .....
1,103,268
661,023
Maldive Islands
19,353
35,089
Mauritius and Bourbon .
487,720
442,102
Mediterranean ports
9,888
7,612
Penang, Singapore, and Malacca
1,703,683
1,417,155
-Egypt
2,756,843
5,486,918
Other Countries
566,861
60,231
Total .
42,275,619
47,128,291
